Namecoin Information

Namecoin is an experimental open-source technology which improves decentralization, security, censorship resistance, privacy, and speed of certain components of the Internet infrastructure such as DNS and identities. Bitcoin frees money Namecoin frees DNS, identities, and other technologies. What can Namecoin be used for? Protect free-speech rights online by making the web more resistant to censorship. Attach identity information such as GPG and OTR keys and email, Bitcoin, and Bitmessage addresses to an identity of your choice. Decentralized TLS (HTTPS) certificate validation, backed by blockchain consensus. Access websites using the .bit top-level domain. What does Namecoin do under the hood? Like bitcoins, Namecoin names are difficult to censor or seize. Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin and still is one of the most innovative altcoins. It was first to implement merged mining and a decentralized DNS . Namecoin was also the first solution to Zookos Triangle , the long-standing problem of producing a naming system that is simultaneously secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful. 2021-06-09 rbm (Reproducible Build Manager) is a quite nice system for reproducible builds. rbm was originally created by Nicolas Vigier from the Tor Browser Team as a replacement for Gitian (which was previously used by Tor Browser and is still used by Bitcoin Core). rbm has since been adopted by other projects like Ricochet and Namecoin (in particular, we use rbm for building ncdns). Recently, Ive been doing some mad science experiments with running rbm on Cirrus CI infrastructure. 2021-05-26 Namecoin Core will, starting version 22.0, no longer require that a salt or TXID be provided in the name_firstupdate RPC call. If no transaction ID is provided, the wallet will perform a linear scan over its unspent outputs to attempt to find a matching transaction. If no salt is provided, it will assume that it can be deterministically generated from the private key using the same scheme already implemented in Electrum-NMC . 2021-05-19 ...